By Upstream staff
Shell will take political issues into account when deciding whether to go ahead with the Persian liquefied natural gas project Iran, chief financial officer Peter Voser said today.
The Anglo-Dutch supermajor and Spain’s Repsol YPF have signed a preliminary deal to develop phases 13 and 14 of Iran’s South Pars gas field, despite Washington urging its allies not to invest in the Islamic Republic.
Voser told a news conference on the company’s earnings that the supermajor was working on technical and economic aspects of the project, which Tehran has valued at $10 billion.
“We will not take a final investment decision to move forward until all this prework has been satisfactorily completed,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
“Once we get to that point, we will take the economic, technical and also the political dimensions into account.”
He did not say when Shell would decide on the investment. In February, Shell boss Jeroen van der Veer said the assessment would be made in about a year.
The Persian LNG project would develop South Pars phases 13 and 14, build an 8 million tonnes per annum liquefied natural gas terminal and then convert the gas to liquid for export to world markets.
Western nations accuse Iran of seeking to build an atomic bomb, a charge Tehran denies, insisting it only wants to master nuclear technology so it can make electricity and save its huge oil and gas reserves for export.
Raising the pressure on Tehran, the US today designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and its elite Qods force a supporter of terrorism.
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25 October 2007 14:12 GMT | last updated: 25 October 2007 14:14 GMT
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
